One thing surprised You Fang, a "great expert", the location of the lights should be the location of the three ancient tombs that were blown up yesterday, and he had been to this valley during the day, which was not like the location of the earth qi spirit center of this huge feng shui bureau. Although it is said that the earth qi spirit can only be determined by having a solid sense of divine sense, with the knowledge of Feng Shui and the observation of the surrounding mountains and rivers, the location of the earth eye can basically be determined.

Most Feng Shui masters in the world do not have spiritual or divine sense, and the determination of the earth's eye is also based on the investigation of the terrain and rational qi.

The eye of the valley should be about fifty meters above the ancient tomb, where the gently stretching foot of the mountain meets the steep uplift of the cliff. The greedy wolf giant peak on the opposite side, the dragon and tiger on both sides, the mountain beam mulberry forest from the place, and the open valley in the center form a feng shui wall of reading, like a paradise, which is theoretically the most suitable place for recuperation.

However, there is a flaw in this wall, that is, there is a lack of water, there is no spring where the water mouth is, and there are intermittent mountain streams only on both sides of the mountain beams in the distance. On the other hand, if the valley is cultivated, it is also the most vulnerable to flooding during the rainy season, making it unsuitable for resettlement villages, and even if it is fertile land, the harvest is not guaranteed.

After all, You Fang is not an ordinary feng shui master, and after a moment of surprise, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he understood the reason. The tomb was built more than 2,000 years ago, when the terrain was different from today, and the valley was where the spiritual center of the earth was located. The valley seen today, the ground is at least tens or even nearly 100 meters higher than more than 2,000 years ago, which is probably the result of the continuous accumulation of sediment carried by the surrounding rainwater for thousands of years, and the most important cause may be one or several large-scale flash floods.

After inspecting the ancient tombs in this area, the brother-in-law deduced that this may be the ancestral source of a certain lineage nobleman in Southern Chu, and it is also its birthplace, which has been multiplied in the thousand-year-long war. At that time, the topography here could not be what it is today, either the natural environment formed a perfect wall, or there were artificial water conservancy and flood control and irrigation facilities, making this place suitable for farming and living, that is the real paradise.

You Fang comprehended the heart plate on the south tower of Chenzhou, and now although he has not launched the heart plate technique, he still has his eyesight and experience, although he has not operated the heart plate, but he has deduced such a conclusion. What's in that tomb? It actually awakened the sleeping vitality of the entire valley, and vaguely sensed the operation of the earth qi spirit more than two thousand years ago. Besides, the ancient tomb should be sealed by Yin Qi, how could there be such a vigorous induction after opening it, You Fang was even more curious at the moment.

The ancient tomb had been blown up the day before yesterday, and he had been to the neighborhood during the day to see the excitement, but he did not notice anything unusual, on the one hand, because there was too much interference from the crowd at that time, and on the other hand, because the sun had not yet set, and the smell from the sky and the surrounding plants and trees was relatively strong, which covered up this induction. When everything is immersed in darkness in the dead of night, it is like the stretching of the consciousness to be perceived.

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Many people in modern times have a great misunderstanding of archaeological excavation work, and their understanding is still stuck in the so-called Western explorers in the last century to carry out predatory destruction and excavation around the world, and many cultural relics and sites in the world have been "discovered" and destroyed forever.

Tomb robbers do everything for profit, but one of the biggest difficulties faced by contemporary cultural relics workers in rescuing and protecting monuments is the shortage of funds.

Archaeological excavation and cultural relics protection itself will not bring direct economic benefits, the need for social investment, not all the places where there are monuments are suitable for the development of tourism projects like the Qin Tombs, and excessive commercial development and the protection of monuments itself has a huge contradiction, if not handled well, it will form a second man-made destruction.

One of the most serious misconceptions that many people today have is that they do not understand the procedures of excavation work for the preservation of cultural relics. In fact, archaeologists like Chi Muduo do not have the right to excavate any ancient tomb without permission, and the survey of any cultural relics and sites needs to be submitted to the plan for approval before it can be implemented. Field excavations often stem from the rescue of damaged monuments.

In the fifties of the last century, under the instigation of Wu Han, Guo Moruo and others, the central government approved the opening of the Dingling Tomb, which was strongly opposed by many cultural relics workers at that time, and it turned out that it was also a wrong lesson, causing a lot of irreparable losses.

Tonight, Chi Mu Duo had to lead a team to rescue and clean up the three destroyed ancient tombs overnight, because he knew that as soon as the archaeological team left, all the things that survived the blasting here would be looted and destroyed by the villagers again, and they didn't know where they would go, and valuable cultural information would be lost forever.

But the feeling of cleaning these three ancient tombs is very strange, the team members first started to clean up the suspected burial tombs on both sides, but no burial goods were found in the tomb, only two bones without coffins, and some traces of silk fabric. The study of ancient silk fabrics does not necessarily require the discovery of real silk fabrics, which may be too small to remain, and Ikemu Duo observed the traces of textile lines on the decaying dust that has not been touched by anyone for two thousand years next to the bones.

This may have been left over from the clothes worn by the bones, which had long since decayed after more than 2,000 years, but left traces on the dust in the tomb. Ikeki Duo had never seen this kind of weaving, and he could clearly identify the exquisite and unusual embroidery patterns of birds and beasts, and the superb embroidery skills were incredible.

Chi Mu Duo prostrate in the tomb, with the help of the cold light source with a magnifying glass to check inch by inch, and then use a high-definition digital camera to take pictures for preservation, feeling a little fortunate in his heart, it seems that the tomb robbers have not had time to enter, otherwise as soon as they rummage through the bones to find the burial goods, in the eyes of Chi Mu Duo, the most valuable trace information will be erased forever. Fortunately, the bricks and soil did not fall near the bones when the villagers blew up the tomb, otherwise the information about these ancient silk fabrics and textile processes would not have been preserved.

But these two burial tombs are very strange, judging from the traces of decay near the bones, no one has touched them at all, but no coffins have been found. After cleaning up, it was analyzed and identified, one on the left and one on the right, that the bones belonged to a pair of young men and women, and the other items were only two bronze swords, which did not look like burial goods, and the traces of the landing seemed to be held in the hands of those two people.

Ikeki Duo made a startling inference that the two men were not buried after death, but that they had committed suicide by drawing their swords in the tomb through some special ritual. Why did they do this, did they want to protect the central main tomb with their souls after their death? It is normal for the ancients to have this kind of thought, especially in the Southern Chu area, where all kinds of strange witchcraft were popular.

One of the two bronze swords is wider and thicker, about fifty-seven centimeters long, and the other is thinner and narrower, about fifty-four centimeters long, and there is a very exquisite carving of Rui beast on the spine of the sword, which seems to be a pair of male and female. This is the first written material seen in so many days of rescue excavation, and it is extremely valuable information.

Bronzes are much more corrosion-resistant than iron, and most of them are preserved in better conditions, but there will be rapid decay after unearthing, first of all, the scabbard is difficult to preserve, and secondly, the surface of the artifact will have a layer of salt frost, like what ingredients have been precipitated. The thickness, color, and shape of this layer of "frost" are related to the metal composition of the artifact, the age of storage, the excavation conditions, the preservation environment, and the surface treatment process.

But these two swords are very well preserved, not only did there be no frost at all after they were unearthed, but even the most common layer of hazy mist on the surface of metal artifacts was not covered, the luster was not lost at all, and the blade was extremely sharp and flashing with cold. Chi Mu Duo commanded the team members to carefully put away the two swords, and after taking pictures, try not to touch the bones, according to the general principle, the tomb needs to be sealed in situ, and try to bury the thief hole to restore its original state.

The ensuing clean-up work confirmed Chi Muduo's guess that these two peculiar burial tombs were actually connected to the main tomb, but they were not simple ear chambers, because the passage between them was so narrow that not a single cat could get through, let alone a person. The most reasonable inference is that this is for the soul to enter and exit after death.

For archaeologists, it does not matter whether he is an atheist or not, and the conclusions drawn are based on the thinking of the ancients.

Then the most difficult work of cleaning the main tomb began, this time it was not the usual and could be dangerous. Because the roof of the tomb has been blown up, Ikemu Duo has to go down to clean up the fallen rubble and dirt little by little, and if a second collapse occurs at this time, it is likely that he will be buried in it. The usual procedure is for the downstream to dig up the soil layer on the surface and then do the excavation and cleanup, but now it is too late.

Chi Muduo didn't let the other team members take the risk, and decided to go down by himself, You Chengyuan couldn't stop her husband, so she could only decide to go down with him, and if something happened, he pulled him to withdraw quickly, and he was discussing it here, when he heard someone shouting at the foot of the mountain: "Sister Chengyuan, I'm Xu Kai, I'm here to bring you food." ”

You Fang arrived, and he shouted in advance to say hello, because he hadn't expected so many things when he broke up, and informed his sister that he had used a pseudonym in the village, and he wouldn't show his flaws when he spoke later. You Chengyuan was overjoyed when he heard this voice, and whispered in her husband's ear: "It's Chengcheng who has arrived, he has a pseudonym Xu Kai, and I don't know what happened, I'll listen to what I say first, don't show your flaws." ”

Several other members of the archaeological team were taken aback, who could touch this black rumbling in the middle of the night? Fortunately, he shouted before he went up the mountain, it seems that he is an acquaintance of You Chengyuan, otherwise he wouldn't frighten people when he suddenly came out? Those who do archaeology are not afraid of ghosts, but of living people with ill intentions.

Looking down the hill, a small group walked up, wow, three chickens and two rabbits in their hands, all washed and peeled, as well as a big black pot and a plastic bag, which contained spices such as pepper, salt, onions, and ginger. The archaeological team's field camp has gas canisters and steamers, but there are not many things to prepare, so they can only make rice and salty mustard to satisfy their hunger, and they have to go back to the village if they want to eat richly.

I haven't had time to cook since I was busy during the day, but now someone has brought such a sumptuous dinner. The chicken in You Fang's hand was stolen from the village, and he bled to perform calligraphy on the courtyard wall of the village committee, and the rabbit was caught by chance in the mulberry forest, authentic game, as for those seasonings, he brought them from You Chengyuan's big travel bag, and he also took a few pieces of ginger from the yard of Dabao's house, and plucked a few small green onions in the field.

You Chengyuan had already greeted him: "Xu Kai, you are finally here, where did you go during the day, why didn't you come over?" ”

You Fang smiled bitterly: "I went into the valley with you, and I didn't dare to come over when I saw the frame at that time, for fear of being photographed with a hoe by the villagers with you, so I pretended to be an antique dealer who went into the mountain to receive goods and lived in the village guest house." If something happens to you, someone will tell you about it! I won't see you go back until midnight, so if I don't feel at ease, I'll touch it and take a look, and send some food by the way, everyone is hungry, right? ”

You Chengyuan turned around and explained to Chi Muduo: "I met Xu Kai in Guidong City, I heard that we found such a large group of ancient Chu tombs here, I was very interested, and I also wanted to come over to see and see, we are also short of manpower here, so I brought him." ”

Chi Muduo said with a smile: "Xu Kai, didn't you change your career to engage in collection appraisal, why are you still interested in archaeological excavation?" Come and see it, I'm afraid you haven't seen such a large distribution of pre-Qin and Han tombs. ”

You Fang replied: "I'm very interested in this industry, but I can't bear that hardship for many years, and it's easy to engage in collection and identification, and I have always admired Director Chi!" ”

Chi Muduo explained to several other archaeological team members that this Xu Kai was also a colleague, and he had worked together in archaeological excavations in Xinjiang Province before, but later stopped doing field excavation work, and changed his career to engage in collection identification, which can be regarded as an old friend. He has long been surprised by the various tricks played by You Chengyuan's sister and brother, and he has a tacit understanding of lying. Since Director Chi said so, several members of the archaeological team were not suspicious of anything.

You Chengyuan stepped forward to introduce other archaeological team members to You Fang, Zhong Yi, a 36-year-old or 7-year-old male team member, from Bo, Hunan Province, Zhang Renyun, a male team member in his 40s, from the city's Cultural Relics Bureau, and Zhu Dayou, a male team member in his early thirties, and Jiang Xiafei, another female member of the archaeological team, are from the county museum and archaeological workstation.

Jiang Xiafei is twenty-seven or eight years old, his hometown is in the nearby mountains, his figure is about the same as You Chengyuan, half a head taller than most local women, and his appearance has the unique water spirit and Peugeot of a girl in the mountains, but his temper is very big, and he patted You Fang's shoulder and said, "What a handsome guy!" Cheng Yuan, didn't you say that you were going to bring your brother to me on this trip, why did you change people? ”

You Chengyuan: "My younger brother doesn't know what to do, he can't get through on the phone in Guangzhou, and he happened to meet Xu Kai on the way back, and our relationship is also very good, just like my sister and brother." ”

Then the clean-up work was suspended, and everyone set up a simple gas stove to start stewing chicken soup, and a bunch of bonfires were lit over there to roast rabbits, and the enticing aroma permeated the foot of the mountain, making people drool when they smelled it. In this cold and tense night, a warm and relaxing atmosphere was added, and everyone's fatigue seemed to be reduced a lot during the day.

Everyone gathered around You Fang to ask about the situation in the village, and You Fang gave a detailed introduction to the bizarre explosion in the village and the investigation process of the police, and finally comforted everyone: "The villagers will not be able to stab themselves for a while, and tomorrow a large number of police will enter the village and search for explosives from house to house to ask about the case." ”

Jiang Xiafei: "Great, I can finally live in peace in a few days!" Thankfully, this Feiju village has finally suffered retribution! Hopefully, the police will catch those grave robbers. ”

Zhu Dayou frowned and asked, "Who did the arson and explosion, you haven't heard any news in the village?" ”

You Fang shrugged: "It's the first day I've been here, how can I know what's going on?" When I ran back with the villagers, the village committee had already blown up, and I saw the words on the wall. Presumably, the people here have done too many sins and have been punished. ”

Zhu Dayou shook his head and said: "We are archaeologists, we haven't seen anything, how can we believe in this?" ”

You Fang disagreed: "It doesn't matter if we believe it or not, it's a matter of the police, can such a bad surname incident not be carefully investigated?" If you really go through the sieve in the village, it is one thing whether the arson case can be solved, and I am afraid that those tomb robbery cases will have to be investigated. ”

While speaking, the chicken soup was stewed, and the rabbit was cooked, Jiang Xiafei took out a few stainless steel vegetable basins and aluminum lunch boxes from the tent, and everyone ate together. You Fang said that he was not hungry after eating, so he stood up and asked Chi Muduo, "How is the cleanup, and what do you need help with?" ”

You Chengyuan said: "The main tomb is a bit dangerous, the dome of the tomb has collapsed, I am afraid that there will be another collapse, and no one has gone down yet." ”

You Fang walked nearby and looked down: "No problem, I'll go down." ”

You Chengyuan asked: "Are you sure there is really no problem?" ”

You Fang nodded affirmatively, and gave his sister another look: "If I go down, there should be no problem, if you help pull the rope on it, there will be no danger at all." ”

You Chengyuan took the opportunity to rush to Chi Mu Duo and said: "When I wanted to excavate in Xinjiang Province, Xu Kai was the most flexible and skillful, and his skills were also the most ingenious, much stronger than you and me, so it is better to let him go down to see the situation first." ”

You Fang really wanted to go down, and he was the first to go down, walking from the valley to this vicinity, the strange feeling in the divine consciousness has always existed, but it has not become stronger because of the proximity of the distance, and has always maintained a vague subtle state, which is the resonance of this piece of feng shui wall as a whole, and the spiritual attraction that inspired it came from the tomb.

In this tomb, there must be a phenomenon that is difficult for ordinary people to understand and perceive, just now when I was chatting and listening to my brother-in-law tell about the strange discovery of cleaning up the two burial tombs, You Fang felt very shocked, could it be that people more than 2,000 years ago performed some kind of incredible secret method and left some kind of information for future generations?

(To be continued)